Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 27 months of the sickening taste of Quisling, the Norwegian Government-in-Exile knows what nourishment it wants in the world of the future.* Last week a bulletin of the government described its appetite...
...Francisco, where Hearst headlines every evening vie with Scripps-Howard's, Murder and War competed for readers' attention one evening last fortnight. Late editions of Hearst's Call-Bulletin bannered in two-inch letters across the top of Page One: U.S. NAVY GIVES 15T FULL STORY OF ALASKA BATTLE. Across the top of Page One Scripps-Howard's News played: RED CARNATION MURDER! Under the News's headline was a picture of a comely blonde college coed who had been shot to death in a motorists' cabin by a lover who left a bunch...
Market Street newsvendors laid bets on whether Murder would outsell War, soon discovered that it was no contest. The score: the News's street sales jumped 2,600 copies; the Call-Bulletin, which normally outsells the News nearly 2-to-1 on newsstands, showed no gain. Crowed the News's Managing Editor Frank Clarvoe: "It was good journalism and a great escape story...
Reaching out among the far-flung Harvard alumni, war has been brought a step closer to home recently as the Alumni Bulletin announced that F. Holbrook Mahn '38 has been rescued after a week afloat at sea, and Arthur L. Derby '39 is reported missing in action in the Philippines...
...folks. In Manhattan he met Songsleuth Sigmund Spaeth, who sent him to NBC. Ambling amiably up to a mike, he started off with Robin He Married a Wife from the West. But NBC listeners that warm June day in 1940 heard no more than the opening line. "Special bulletin," the announcer broke in, "France has capitulated...